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chose to appear, demonstrating that the man who intends to succeed in the profession of law, can do so even without the great advantages of education in a law school. The antagonist who won his spurs in a tilt with Albert Pendleton Gillespie, was entitled to wear them. He was a man of positive character and, although a strenuous antagonist, he was a fair one. He was elected, without opposition, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-2, from Tazewell county. Besides being a successful lawyer, he was a successful business man, and reaped the full reward of that success.

In social, domestic and business life he was honest and pure. He was devoted to his family-a most affectionate and tender husband and father; inculcating in his family and social circles high ideals. He was, in religious faith, a staunch Presbyterian, and in acts and conduct truly a Christian man.

Albert Gillespie will be greatly missed in his home, in his church, in his community and by his brethren and associates at the bar. His good and devoted wife died a few months after he did, and one son and two daughters now survive him.

SAMUEL CECIL GRAHAM.

CHARLES PINCKNEY JONES.

In the period of sixty-eight years Mr. Jones rounded out a well-spent life, full of worthy achievements. A life not only filled with success, but a successful life.

He was born in Franklin, Pendleton county, (now) West Virginia, on the 17th day of September, 1845. In 1863 he enlisted in the Confederate army, serving in Company E, 18th Virginia Cavalry, until the close of the war. In 1868 he graduated with distinction from the law department of the University of Virginia, and located for the practice of his profession at Monterey, Virginia.

In 1883 he was elected a member of the Virginia House of Delegates; in 1885 chosen State Senator for the counties of Highland, Bath, Alleghany, Botetourt and Rockbridge, and served with distinction until he retired in 1897. He was a member of the Board of Visitors and the Rector of the University of Virginia from 1898 to 1906. In 1908 he was one of the organizers of the Citizens Bank of Highland, and its president from that date until his death. Held in high esteem by his church and honored in its councils, he passed into the great beyond from his home in Monterey, Virginia, on Sunday, February 22, 1914.

On January 17, 1872, he married Miss Martha Jane Wilson, of Franklin, W. Va., a woman whose loyal and tender devotion to her husband and their family served to make their home life one of the happiest.

To them were born ten children, nine of whom survive. Two of the sons (Charles P. Jones, Jr., of Covington, Va.; and Edwin B. Jones, of Monterey, Va.), are lawyers. One son, Russell Jones, lives in California. The other son, Richard Carlyle Jones, with their four daughters (Mrs. Phoebe Wilson, and Misses Mabel, Martha, Margaret and Evelyn Jones), live in Monterey, where their mother also lives.

Though justly celebrated for his public efforts, it was to his home circle that he gave his best self, leaving a memory hallowed by his unfailing tenderness and sympathy.

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